Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [is] that " in BNC.

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1 One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear .
2 ‘ One thing these workless weeks in Venice have taught me is that I need my profession .
3 The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition .
4 The first thing I said to the commissioning editors when I met them is that I would not commission one programme .
5 The problem with using them is that they may produce a self-fulfilling prophecy .
6 ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully .
7 ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned .
8 What impresses me is that when the causes of this ancient conflict have been forgotten , except by those who have made a study of it , this monument remains , crudely chiselled and doubtless seldom visited , testament to three modest souls who died for what they believed in and who are otherwise lost to history .
9 What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility .
10 What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion .
11 What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it .
12 But what worries me is that , since middle age has been put to fright , will old age descend overnight like a sudden frost on the dew ? ’
13 What worries me is that it is not going to end there .
14 I 'm no expert , but what worries me is that , when you 're dealing with madmen , they increase their demands at the slightest sign of weakness . ’
15 ‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares .
16 The only thing , the only thing that worries me is that the thing gets priority .
17 Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches .
18 But I think there is I mean something that ought to be mentioned one of the things that worries me is that there is n't here today a man of the type that I meet every day in Oxford who says ‘ sexual harassment ?
19 Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it .
20 can promise you is that commissions awarded on basis of competition , we were looking for quality , we invited bids , we
21 The evidence on which I base it is that , within three weeks of the White Paper being introduced in the middle of this year , there were 15 announcements of changes to the proposals now in the legislation .
22 Without for one moment implying any impropriety , this last episode demonstrates how deliciously appropriate it is that Mr Wyatt should subsequently have struck up such a warm friendship with the world 's foremost collector of air miles .
23 ‘ What worries us is that our sales could be affected because fingers of suspicion are being pointed at us . ’
24 the reason the world does n't know us is that it did not know him .
25 At the moment the advice they will give you is that erm you 're okay , but they are reviewing the regulations and once they actually er reach a decision then that work will be .
26 Cos what normally happens is with tetanus , that the reason it kills you is that you stop breathing because your muscles that work your lungs , the diaphragm , the intercostal muscles between the ribs , those seize up and you just stop breathing .
27 What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) .
28 What Aristotle says there is that the demos would like to be a monarchos , an autocrat , he does not quite say that it is .
29 I think the important thing to remember there is that erm we regard ourselves as having and people who work in universities regard themselves as having a special obligation and indeed to use their own special skills in order indeed to define the needs of society in their own special field and then to do what they can to satisfy .
30 The best answer that I can give him is that the fact that Mr. Thorpe had available to him the escape route of appealing to a health authority elsewhere in the country meant that the process was not carried to its conclusion in north Devon .
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